Baseball card collecting is serious business. The 2007 edition of the Baseball Card catalog (ISBN 0-89689-372-3) is 1848 pages! That’s a full 2.5″ of tiny-printed bliss (if you’re into that sort of thing)!
And I have the rare joy of sorting through over 20,000 baseball cards from various manufacturers and years for sale on eBay. Fortunatly for me Beckett, one of the leading names in card valuations,
(more…)
Macworld did a great write-up on multiple-os, virtual machines. As a wee lil’ iBook G4 user, I have yet to really enjoy the benefits of multiple OSes. I am anticipating my new Intel-mac, however, and am looking forward to installing Windows (I know, ugh) as well as an install of Linux.
Now that there are some really great virtualization software options available, I have to wonder why anyone would stick to one operating system. To be honest, I love my Mac, and I have grown quite comfortable with it (thanks mostly to Quicksilver).
Nevertheless, it would seem very self-limiting for an Informatics student to use only one operating system. I would think it could be very beneficial to learn as many operating systems as possible for a well-rounded education.
(more…)
Ebay is not a very friendly place for Mac users. The problem with printing online postage labels has frustrated many a user, and the workarounds can be almost as frustrating.
I started selling on eBay around a month ago. Of course, I don’t want to be bothered with running to the post office and such; I’m a very busy person, after all. A great solution is paying for postage online, and requesting a carrier pickup. And therein lies the problem. Paying for postage online is virtually impossible for a mac user.
I have found two great workarounds that are quite simple. The first solution worked great, until I needed to purchase postage for Media Mail. Then I stumbled onto the second solution.
(more…)
